Thomas West, 3rd Lord De La Warr b 09.07.1575
d 07.06.1618 a great friend of the Earl of Essex, who knighted him at Dublin,
July 12, 1599. He was implicated in the Essex rebellion and was imprisoned.
Essex, however, asked pardon of his father, the second Lord Delaware, for
bringing his son into danger. After the father's death, March 24, 1602,
he succeeded as third Lord Delaware, and was a member of the privy council
of Queen Elizabeth, and on her death became a privy councillor to King
James. He took a most active interest in the American enterprise, and in
1609 was a member of the superior council of Virginia in England. The experience
with the first charter left the impression with the public, that only a
supreme and absolute governor could obviate the dissensions and faction
that characterized the history of the colony. A help to order lay, it was
believed, in the selection of a man whose rank would inspire respect, and
when the second charter was obtained the Virginia Company turned to Lord
Delaware. As he was, however, unable to go at once, they conferred the
office of governor temporarily upon Sir Thomas Gates. On February 28, 1610,
Delaware was commissioned governor of the Virginia colony for life, and
was sent with 150 emigrants, chiefly workmen, to the assistance of Jamestown.
He arrived at Point Comfort, June 7, 1610, just in time to save the colony
from abandonment by Gates. Delaware sent the pinnace Virginia up the river
to meet the departing settlers, and under the orders of the new governor
they were all taken back again to Jamestown. Sunday, June 10, Lord Delaware
himself arrived. He had the town cleaned and rehabilitated the frail houses.
The settlement of four acres was defended by new palisades and
everything was made safe and comfortable for the time being. He next
proceeded to settle matters with the Indians, and after driving Pochines
and his tribe from Kecoughtan he erected two forts at the mouth of Hampton
river, called Charles and Henry, about three miles from Point Comfort.
In the interim he sent out an expedition to search for mines above the
falls, but the Indians were very troublesome and no mines were found. It
was the fashion of the times to boost the country at the expense of the
poor colonists, who were traduced and villified. Delaware, in a letter
to the London Company, pursued the example, but retribution followed fast.
The great trouble was the unhealthiness of the country and the rotten supplies
sent over, which introduced sickness and death, and Delaware was literally
bombarded out of the country by a combined attack of ague, flux, cramp
and gout. To save his life he went first to the West Indies, whence he
sailed to England, where he arrived rather crestfallen about a year after
his departure. he remained in the latter country till 1618, and in his
absence the government of Virginia was administered by Deputy Governors
Gates, Dale, Yardley and Argall. In the latter year he was sent again to
Virginia to rescue the government from the hands of Samuel Argall, who
had incurred the strong resentment of the Virginia Company of London, but
on the way over he died June 7, 1618, aged forty-one.

John West b 14 Dec 1590, Testwood, Wiltshire, England
d 1659, West Point, King William Co VaGovernor
of Virginia 1635-1637), the namesake of the town of West Point, Virginia.m1 Anne Percy b 1608 in Jamestown Va and granddau
of Henry Percy 8th Earl o f Northumberland and Catherine Neville dau of
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